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From Hanoi i took a bus to nanning (south china). I ve got a three months visa (2 entrance) in hanoi chineese consulate.
At the chinnese border, a french couple adviced me to hide my lonely planet guide book. They told me that the chinesse don t want that travelers go in china witrh that, they take you off that book. Because in that book it s readen that taiwain doens t belong to china. My first step in china...Nanning..ouah..a schock....another planet.
My first felling are : many young people, clean , modern, only chinesse character, hugeness of the city, efficiency,.... Nanning has two millions of inhabitants, there are only few foreigners. people don t care about you, just few students give you a discret smile. Nanning is a big city (as big as Lyon or valencia or manchester) but nobody knows that city in europe, there are 30 bigs cities in china (from 2 to 20millions) of inhabitants but most of them are unknow by westeners.
I shared a room we a french man Fabrice, and an israeli boy Ronen because accomadotion is expensive here and nobody can help us because of the language barrier. Fabrice 53 old man is travelling for two years, every day he sends to france a piece of art that he find in different place (local objects, amzing waste,...), he calls that ''post art''. A friend of him collects that every day...to make a kind of museum.
In Nanning i met an english speaker, Jack from singapore. he showed us nice local place, He took us to the night market, we tested so many stranges stuff. He helped me to buy a SIM Card
My first goal here, is to learn how to show number. For example, To pay 6 yuans, they don t show you 6 fingers, they make a special gesture (It s looks like t the gesture when you want to imitate a phone, or the famous gesture of the soccer player Ronaldinho). IN the street nobod speak english , if you llof your way, you ve to point the name of the strret in chinesse. So you can count till 20 with one hand.
Chineese are really friendly... i had lot of bad experiences in vietnam. People give you in most of the case local price...they smile and they arenot as hateful as vietnamese towards the foreigners. From Nanning I travelled with Mickael a canadian boy (He s english teacher in china). In the train to GUilin, we was considered as star, a old lady gave us chocolate, two students take us till the hotel.
In GUilin, we tested the famous green tea and we climb up two peaks. Mickael taught me that if i want toi avoid to eat dog, i just to never order the most expensive dish.
Two things really shocked me in china for now:
- when you go in a cyber cafe to send an email in the middle of the night, and you find at least 1000 youngs people playing in the same time at the computer games. In Paris a typical Cyber cafe has 10 computer but not 1000.
- At the bank clerk, you have to give your appreciation about the worker after he attends you. You can see the total appreciations that he got previously.
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